Re: RARA-AVIS: Hardboiled panic...

From: Dennis Lynds ( dennislynds@cox.net)
Date: 02 May 2005


Jacques,

Everyone has a bad day, everyone needs the money at some time. It goes with the territory of making a living at a craft and sullen art where in the marketplace everyone has a paying job except you.

Dennis-=Michael etc.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacques Debierue" < matrxtech@yahoo.com> To: < rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 4:32 PM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Hardboiled panic...

> The other night I was woken up by a storm and couldn't go back to sleep,
so I picked up
> the Library of America Chandler collection. I said what the hell, let's be
historical, and
> started reading Blackmailers Don't Shoot.
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> Five, six pages into the story and I couldn't make head or tail of it.
Lots of people getting
> shot, Mallory driving here and there, but it made no sense. I finished
it, but it was
> painful. A situation: either to doubt Chandler's ability to deliver the
magic or doubt my
> own hemispheres at two in the morning.
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> The code of the card-carrying hardboil prohibits the former, so... I went
on to read
> Trouble is My Business. Ah, Chandler. Just for good measure I read The
King in Yellow. Ah,
> Chandler. But the panic was real. It made me think of the faith we feed
into this.
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> Best,
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> MrT
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> RARA-AVIS home page: http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/
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